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Haryana Municipal Elections 2022 underway; 48.8% polling recorded

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Haryana Municipal Elections 2022 underway; 48.8% polling recorded
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Haryana, June 19: The voting for elections to 28 municipal committees and 18 municipal councils is underway in Haryana.



On Sunday, people are voting to elect chairpersons, presidents and members of the 40 local bodies. The counting of ballots is scheduled to take place on June 22, officials said. About 4,712 EVMs have been deployed into service for both the elections. So far, the voter turnout has been recorded at 48.8%. As of 12 pm on Sunday, 34.1 % voter turnout was recorded in Kalka Municipal Council.

The main competition is between the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) coalition and the Congress, while the Aam Adam Party is testing the waters ahead of the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections in its first local body election. The BJP-JJP alliance and the AAP, unlike the main opposition Congress, are fighting on the party symbol. Many Congress members are in the fray as Independents.

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A total of 1,290 polling booths have been put up for the municipal elections, according to the Haryana State Election Commission, with 289 sensitive and 235 hypersensitive polling booths. At these polling booths, 6,450 election officials, 82 duty magistrates, and 7,087 police officers and employees have been deployed. There are 456 wards in 18 municipal councils, and 185 candidates are contesting for the position of president, 85 of whom are women. However, 15 councillors have been elected unanimously out of 456 wards. As many as 1,797 candidates are in the fray in remaining 441 wards, of which 1,076 are male and 721 are female.

There are 12.6 lakh voters in 18 municipal councils while 5.7 lakh voters in 28 municipalities.

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